Saturday

Food & drink

Shaken: A Cocktail Competition. Bartenders will have five minutes to run through the market and select their ingredients and 20 minutes to create a delicious seasonal cocktail. A panel and the crowd vote for the winner. Terminal Bar at Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St. Noon-2 p.m.

Best bet: “Something Rotten.” In a musical New York magazine described as “The Producers + Spamalot + The Book of Mormon. Squared,” two brothers in 1595 set out to write the first ever musical. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $30-115.

“Smart People.” Four Harvard intellectuals collide over race, sexual politics and arrogance in what Variety called a “sexy, serious and very, very funny” show. Ricketson Theatre, 1400 Curtis St. 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $30.

“I Don’t Speak English Only.” A play based on the Mexican “tent show” tradition “imagines a future world where all diversity is prohibited and any expression of the other has been forced underground.” Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive. 7:30 p.m. $17-20.

Entertainment

Best bet: “Something Rotten.” In a musical New York magazine described as “The Producers + Spamalot + The Book of Mormon. Squared,” two brothers in 1595 set out to write the first ever musical. Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St. 2 p.m.$30-115.

“Smart People.” Four Harvard intellectuals collide over race, sexual politics and arrogance in what Variety called a “sexy, serious and very, very funny” show. Ricketson Theatre, 1400 Curtis St. 1:30 p.m. $30.

“I Don’t Speak English Only.” A play based on the Mexican “tent show” tradition “imagines a future world where all diversity is prohibited and any expression of the other has been forced underground.” Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive. p.m. $17-20.

Art

For families

The Magical Duo of Harwood & Woodward. Early, all-ages show includes cutting a woman into thirds, floating on a broom, the haunted table and Houdini’s famous Metamorphosis Trunk. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St. 6:30 p.m. $10-20.

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